Jesse Keating (jkeating@redhat.com) said:
I had hoped that common sense would prevail across our maintainers and that stable releases would be treated as such, stable releases not to be cheapened with lots of unnecessary updates just so that "users can get the latest stuff!". Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be what's happening. I don't want to introduce draconian policies and procedures to enforce this, mostly because there just isn't enough time in the day to supervise all the potential updates for whether they should go out or not.
So I ask you, Fedora Community, how do we as a community ensure that our stable releases stay just that, stable?
Well, it depends. For the stuff I maintain, I tend to follow different policies depending on the package:
- Library versions do not get upgraded in a stable release - The more core a package is, it only gets updated with occasional severe bugfixes - it is not ever rebased. - More peripheral things, such as some desktop apps, get updated to the latest minor bugfix version
Hard to say how much this works for everyone, though.
Bill